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I guess not. How can you define a non-daemonic forkIO in
terms of a daemonic one?
Both suggestions so far involve adding something extra to the
end of the main
thread to wait on MVars. And as a matter of fact, neither of
these solutions
address the
Michael Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
[snip]
forkChild :: IO () - IO (MVar ())
forkChild p = do
mvar - newEmptyMVar
forkIO (p putMVar mvar ())
return mvar
This does not of course synthesise a non-daemonic forkIO from a daemonic one, because
it requires the parent thread to wait
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 15:34:51 +0200, George Russell wrote:
Einar Karlson, my predecessor, asked for daemonic forking as for Java. In
Java you have ordinary threads and daemonic threads; the process ends when
only daemonic threads are still running. The GHC team seem to have gone
ahead
